Faculty and staff members who have given presentations or had articles published are listed below.
In the News
Tim Wood, special assistant to the president for
Charter Schools, was interviewed WGVU Radio for a story about Grand
Valley’s new cyber charter school, Michigan Virtual Charter Academy.
Sketches
News and Information Services received PRoof Awards
from the West Michigan Public Relations Society of America for Grand
Valley Magazine, Forum, Around Grand Valley video, December 2009
Commencement video, 2009 Convocation video, William Seidman video news
release, and the media relations for the Seidman memorial service.
Ryan Thum, assistant professor at the Annis Water
Resources Institute, received grant money from the National Science
Foundation for his research, “RUI: Evolutionary and Ecological
Importance of Hybridization and Cryptic Diversity in a Rapidly
Expanding Aquatic Plant.”
Justin Adams, assistant professor of biomedical
sciences, received a National Science Foundation grant for his
research, “Exploring Hoogland, Haasgat, and the Plio-Pleistocene
Landscape of the Schurveberg Mountain Region, South Africa.”
William Dickinson, associate professor of
mathematics, received a three-year National Science Foundation grant
for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Mathematics Program.
Kirkhof College of Nursing faculty members Jean
Barry and Claudia Leiras-Laubach and
Jodi Tyron, liaison librarian, gave a presentation,
“ICU Nurses’ Experience of Moral Distress: A Metasummary of Existing
Research,” at the 2010 Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual
Research Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kirkhof College of Nursing faculty members Sue
Mlynarczyk and Becky Davis participated in
the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing Education Consortium
Institute in April.
Joy Washburn, assistant professor of nursing, gave a
presentation, “Career Planning and the Transition to Professional
Nursing Practice Experience for Graduate Nurses,” at the Sigma Theta
Tau International Leadership Summit in Atlanta.
